About Target: As a Fortune 50 company with more than 450,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.
Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.
Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Tech is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.
About Team:
This role is mainly within the Digital Engineering team at Target Tech. Our goal is to create a top-notch shopping experience for our customers through the target.com website and the flagship Android and iOS apps, making it personalized and rewarding. We continuously innovate and experiment to offer unique experiences that provides inspirations and easy discoverability of the right product at the right time for our guests and help fulfil the order using the convenient fulfilment method.
In this journey, we aim to develop category-based end-to-end experiences for guests, covering discovery, inspiration, purchase, and post-transaction stages. Technologically, we are adopting a new scalable architecture to accelerate the implementation of our digital strategy. This means we are not only driving our ambitious digital shopping goals but also building new technological foundations to expedite our entire time-to-market strategy.
About SEM: The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) is responsible for leading high performing team of frontend engineers who will be focussing on building new category based end to end experiences on target.com website and flagship Android and iOS apps. This role is accountable for team’s high quality and high performant code, technical roadmap and decisions, upholding engineering and security best practices, stakeholder management and strong partnership with product and UX leaders. The role also demands building strong partnership with the global engineering and product teams and working with many other experience teams in order to deliver the end to end funnel experience for our guests. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.
Core responsibilities of this job
- As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you…
Drive product development and operations with lead engineers and drive technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions. - You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions.
- Assist in defining infrastructure need and use of Target enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment and managing overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards.
- Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product and UX teams and influence product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers.
- Build and manage a team of high performing front end engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.
About you:
- 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of engineering (software development) experience
- 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery high performing and scalable Mobile applications or websites.
- Possesses a strong understanding of systems programming and control languages as required by your domain. Has demonstrated success in solving complex technical problems in more than one technical or functional areas
- Expertise in 2 or more of the programming languages
- Understands business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audience.
- Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
- Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems leading complex technology teams
- Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly
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What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
